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in our environment, in our hyperpartisan environment, most people in a situation like this seeing any possibility for political advantage would have raced to expose something like this, right? general petraeus was confronted about this two weeks ago, right? two weeks before the election. chose -- ultimately decided to resign but didn't decide to resign at that moment. was there part of the reason he did not decide to resign immediately upon being confronted on this, he knew it would be embarrassing for the administration on the eve of an election? that's a reasonable inference. there's so much we don't know because so many people individually have not spoken publicly about the chain of events and their motivations in terms of keeping quiet at a moment of maximum political volatility. >> just to clarify because i've raised a lot of questions here, my biggest concern isn't what happened at the end. i understand there are a lot of conservatives that are going to be thinking that this was -- >> cover-up. >> benghazi, cover-up, that's not my concern. my concern is the beginning of this. if
in our environment, in our hyperpartisan environment, most people in a situation like this seeing any possibility for political advantage would have raced to expose something like this, right? general petraeus was confronted about this two weeks ago, right? two weeks before the election. chose -- ultimately decided to resign but didn't decide to resign at that moment. was there part of the reason he did not decide to resign immediately upon being confronted on this, he knew it would be...
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but i think also, though, he didn't -- he was not sufficiently angry enough in this environment that the primary process was fought in. he wasn't anti-intellectual enough. >> and downplayed his conservatism. >> that was the biggest mistake. he downplayed his conservatism from the very beginning. and i want to say again, mark halperin, the anti-intellectualism in the republican party over the past decade has been growing. that's another thing bobby jindal has been talking about. that's got to change. that's got to change. we not only have to win over hispanics, we've got to win over educated hispanics. educated african-americans. educated white people. educated people of all races with ph.d.s, an area we've been losing for decades. >> and joe, there's another issue that i know you think a lot about and thought a lot about that huntsman also talked about which is afghanistan and ending the war. that's another populist issue that i think republicans missed in 2012. the president was for winding down the war. you had others who didn't run that thought that that was an issue to tap into a
but i think also, though, he didn't -- he was not sufficiently angry enough in this environment that the primary process was fought in. he wasn't anti-intellectual enough. >> and downplayed his conservatism. >> that was the biggest mistake. he downplayed his conservatism from the very beginning. and i want to say again, mark halperin, the anti-intellectualism in the republican party over the past decade has been growing. that's another thing bobby jindal has been talking about....
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it's a very bad food environment that we live in. thank you for bringing this to the table. >> you just marginalized yourself in a way that your two mean brothers never could. >> p we all lived under the sea. >> intellectually limited. >>> "new york times," the liberal gloat. he makes a lot of points in this piece. i'm going to read one off the computer. let's zoom in on what he says about, for example, what happened with the hispanic vote. are democrats winning hispanics because they put forward a more welcoming face than republican s do? one more in keeping with american's tradition with migrants yearning to breathe free? yes, up to a point. but they're also winning recent immigrants because those immigrants offense wrnts a simulating successfully or, worse, ares a simulating downward, thanks to rising out of wedlock birth rates and drop out rates. it depends heavily on the darker trends, the weaker that families and communities are, the more necessary government support inevitably seems, which is an interesting point. he goes on t
it's a very bad food environment that we live in. thank you for bringing this to the table. >> you just marginalized yourself in a way that your two mean brothers never could. >> p we all lived under the sea. >> intellectually limited. >>> "new york times," the liberal gloat. he makes a lot of points in this piece. i'm going to read one off the computer. let's zoom in on what he says about, for example, what happened with the hispanic vote. are democrats...
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they will adopt whatever policies -- and they'll adapt to that environment. and also, keep in mind, 80% of most major corporations, their business is outside of north america. i'm worried about small business. i'm worried about mid-size businesses. i'm worried about the start-up businesses that say we are the engine of america. >> mm-hmm. >> you're putting this burden on us at a time where it's very difficult for us to compete in the marketplace let alone with incremental costs or uncertainty. >> so the president, congress faces a real challenge here and it's almost like you've got to thread the needle between -- >> yeah. >> ignoring the debt, which would cause the markets to rebel and moving too aggressively toward higher taxes and big spending cuts that will, again, dampen -- dampen the economy for the next year or two. we've got a difficult road ahead. >> it is a difficult road ahead. i guess my view is it's going to be difficult for them to come to a sort of grand bargain of the kind that we almost got year and a half ago. a deal that really looks ahead 1
they will adopt whatever policies -- and they'll adapt to that environment. and also, keep in mind, 80% of most major corporations, their business is outside of north america. i'm worried about small business. i'm worried about mid-size businesses. i'm worried about the start-up businesses that say we are the engine of america. >> mm-hmm. >> you're putting this burden on us at a time where it's very difficult for us to compete in the marketplace let alone with incremental costs or...